Critics' Groups

The Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) have announced the winners of their annual awards, the nominations for which were announced just yesterday. Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air," which had led the nominations with eight mentions, including picture, director, actor, and two for sup...

The Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) followed the National Board of Review and gave Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air" considerable support in their annual nominations. "Air" has strong competition leading to the announcement of tomorrow's winners, though. The George Clooney starrer took 8 nominations, including picture, director, actor, and two for supporting actress, while Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire" and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" each took 7 nominations. "Up" and "Inglourious Basterds" joined the trio in the best film category, while "Nine" and "Invictus" were limited to 2 nomi...

The National Board of Review - arguably the first major Oscar precursor of the season - have handed out their 2009 awards, with Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air" leading a surprising batch of honors, taking best picture, best actor (George Clooney, in a tie with "Invictus"'s Morgan Freeman), best supp...

An eclectic batch of awards offer a considerable honor in their own right, the Oscar precursors are about to start coming at us fast and furious. Starting early next week with the Gotham Awards, Spirit Award nominations, and the National Board of Review winners, and continuing steadily for the foll...

The National Society of Film Critics weighed in with their picks for the best of '08 today in New York, with Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bashir" receiving the group's choice for best picture. Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" won a number of categories, including best director, best actress, best supporting actor and best screenplay. In the non-fiction category, celebrated doc "Man on Wire" by James Marsh took the nod, adding to its roster of best documentary pics including the National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association.The group chose Folman's animated documentary, about the the atrocities the Is...

Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" and Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" led the nominations for the 2008 Chicago Film Critics' Association Awards taking six nods apiece. Both received notices for both best picture and best director, as did Gus Van Sant's "Milk," Andrew Stanton's "WALL-E" and D...

Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" won both picture and best director (an award Boyle shared with the film's mysterious "co-director," Loveleen Tandan) from the New York Film Critics' Online's annual awards. The film also took awards for best score, best cinematography and best screenplay. The acting awards looked familiar, with Sally Hawkins, Sean Penn, Penelope Cruz and Heath Ledger once again winning in their respective categories, a repeat of nearly every critics' announcement thus far. Other awards included "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days for best foreign language film, "Man on Wire" for best documentary, "WALL-E" for best animated featu...